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...whose fathers were members of the armed forces, business executives, politicians, lawyers, farmers, or abstract scientists, she found that boys outnumbered girls six to five. But, she reports in Science, the ratio was exactly reversed in those families where the fathers had taken up professions in which women often excel men-as actors, social workers, teachers, fiction writers and artists...
...Delicate Thread. Russia, said he, has supremacy in the air today "over most of the world's land mass. We excel them only in the quality of our long-range bombers and in numbers of atomic bombs. On this single fact, our security hangs by a delicate thread...
When a girl finishes Vassar, she's supposed to be good at everything and excel at nothing. This is the theory of a liberal arts education...
...truth of the mater is that genuine natural athletes just don't grow behind every ivy cluster. There are, granted, numerous individuals who excel at one sport and dabble in others...
Geography has become more significant since Bowman's day, when it was under the Geology Department, but it has never won independent status. Instead, the Administration sharply cut geography in 1948, explaining that the University could not excel in every field...